Blogger Han fined for protest moves

October 7, 2024
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Activist and blogger Han Hui was fined $three hundred the day before for co-establishing a protest rally to disrupt a charity event at Hong Lim Park and organizing a demonstration without approval.

After a seven-day trial, the 24-12 months-old was convicted collectively with Koh Yew Beng, 61, and Low Wai Choo, 56.

Koh and occasional were fined $450 for committing a public nuisance on the YMCA Proms @ the Park occasion on Sept 27, 2014.

Best Low paid the quality. Han and Koh have not paid their fines, pending the outcome of their appeals.

Closing October, blogger Roy Ngerng, 35, was fined $1,900 – $400 for being a public nuisance and $1,500 for setting up a demonstration without approval.

Chua Siew Leng, 43, turned into fined $300 in March, closing 12 months even as Goh Aik Huat, forty-three, changed into given a conditional warning after an apology.

Convicting Han of the unauthorized demonstration offense, District chooses Chay Yuen Fatt said in his short decision that he was happy that Han had organized the go back Our CPF protest rally that day to protest against the present CPF policies.

He said the evidence proved Han knew of a time when Minister of State Teo Ser Luck would be the visitor of honor at the YMCA event. She rallied her FB readers to go to the CPF event to protest.

The video proof confirmed that during the CPF occasion at the speakers’ nook, she and others, such as Low, made vitriolic speeches to denounce the authorities and various authorities’ regulations.

The decision rejected Han’s defense that she turned into now not the demonstration’s organizer or had no control over the protesters. He determined she no longer had the authorities’ approval to organize or carry out an indication.

Judge Chay stated that the video proof confirmed that the demonstrators, led byby Han’s aid and the two different accused, marched spherical Hong Lim Park in four instances. They chanted loudly and used diverse implements to generate noise.

The decision stated that the demonstrators intruded and bulldozed their manner into the regions occupied by the organizers and individuals of the YMCA occasion and disrupted the performances.

“The height of the disruption occurred during an overall performance with the aid of a group of unique needs kids who were visibly affected and distraught,” he stated.

He also rejected the defense argument that their acts did not include quantity to public nuisance because these were devoted within the audio system’s corner. He stated the idea turned into fallacious as they’d marched past the audio system’s limits’ nook.

“That is a case where, satirically and unluckily, the accused individuals, while ostensibly championing the rights of a class of individuals, did so through blithely trampling at the rights of another organization of individuals,” he stated.

The best for committing a public nuisance is $1,000. For breaching the Parks and Bushes guidelines, Han might have been fined as much as $five 000.